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- Accidental Innuendo: In the Big Rigs episode, Rutledge refers to Tanner's truck (a red Peterbilt truck) as a "nice Peter." Adam notes how wrong it sounds.
- Author's Saving Throw: To those fans of the British version who didn't like that Clarkson's presence overshadowed Hammond and May, this version never allowed one of the three to totally dominate the spotlight.
- Growing the Beard: Season 2 is generally agreed to be an improvement over the first, people feeling that the show found a better footing and wasn't just trying to emulate the original British version.
- Hate Dumb: The American version has gotten hate mainly because "It's not the British version." A lot of this hate tended to come from the US version trying to be just like the British version in Season 1. Yet ironically, they wanted it to be like the British version.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In the Alaska special, Adam's 1977 Ford F250 was described as "...[looking] like the Unabomber's truck". The special aired one week after the Tuscon shooting.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In the show's third season, it abandoned all studio segments and only focused on long-form adventures. Which The Grand Tour eventually did as well.
- Misaimed Hatedom: Has quite a large hatedom composed of fans of the British Top Gear, despite the fact that Jeremy Clarkson says that he, Hammond and May all love the show.
- Squick:
- The hosts' reactions to the forensic tests performed on their $500 cars. Let's just say the results were disgusting and leave it at that.
- In the Continental Divide episode, they had to haul livestock in the back of their minivans. The livestock proceeded to stink up the vans and crap everywhere. In one van, they somehow even managed to eat the ash tray.
- Unpleasable Fanbase: Many complaints about the show could be boiled down to saying it shouldn't copy the British version if it wants to stand out but also to do exactly that if it wants to succeed.
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